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WestConn police participate in the
Connecticut Uniform Crime Report Program (UCR). Every month, we,
along with other law enforcement agencies throughout the state,
submit UCR data indicating the number of offenses brought to our
attention. The offenses that are reported are called Part I (Crimes
against the person) and Part II (Crimes against property) Crimes.
Some of these crimes are murder, forcible and non-forcible sex
offenses, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle
theft, and arson.

These crimes are also mandated by the Clery
Act to be reported and distributed annually on October 1st,
through the department's Annual Report to all current students,
faculty and staff. The statistics gathered for this report include
all reported crimes in these categories to the police department,
incidents that occurred on public property surrounding the campus
and that were reported to the Danbury Police Department, and
incidents not reported to the police that may have been reported
confidentially to a campus security authority. The report also
contains statistics for arrests and referrals to the campus judicial
process for liquor law violations, drug abuse violations and weapon
law violations.

Federal Law also requires that all Hate
Crime in the mandated categories be reported. Those crimes are
further broken down by the nature of the bias, for example: race,
gender, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity and disability.
Although WestConn has not experienced the types of bias crimes
mandated to be reported, we have reported Hate Crimes classified as
Criminal Mischief and Intimidation to the State Police and they are
included in the charts.

As you will see from the crime statistics in our Annual Campus
Security Report, Western has a very low "crime rate." Nonetheless, we shall continue to do all that
we can to keep our campus safe and secure.